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BRIEFCASE - FLORIDA

November 21, 1990

AN ESTIMATED 800 more trees will be destroyed at a Highlands County grove as a result of a new discovery of citrus canker last week, grove owner Ed Smoak said Tuesday. A state risk assessment team decided that the trees should be burned to control the spread of the disease, Smoak said. This comes after state inspectors last week discovered canker on six trees near an area where the disease was identified in October. The October findings resulted in the burning of 13,469 trees.